Saturday, October 03, 2026
As someone noted, this whole mess, if it wasn't before, has been completely politicized
A: It was YOUR Facebook post, idiot.
B: read the whole piece here, with stuff on James I'd never heard before. And I wonder how much this 'I agree with everything she said, with no investigation' could get her sued for?
A question for those who reload, or An addition
I've noticed something about some subsonic loads. You expect the bullet to have a lower point of impact at any distance due to the lower velocity, but some very consistently hit a bit to the right. The one I tried recently grouped very tightly at 50 yards, but an inch to the right. That was in .308, a while back I tried some subsonic loads, both factory and reloads, in 7.62x39 that hit a bit more to the right as well as lower.
All cases trimmed, and bullets seated to the same depth. That's a slightly different depth than the full loads, but consistent.
I spoke with a guy I know who's an engineer who has studied lots of things, he says it's the weight combined with different time in the bore due to lower velocity causing the bullet to leave the muzzle at a different time than the full-power loads.
Some history, borrowed from Ace:
Daily dose of history, September 27
Samuel Adams was an abject failure as a businessman. After graduating from Harvard with two degrees, his father gave him the money with which to launch his business career. Sam soon lost it all. He was 26 when his father died, leaving him a substantial inheritance. But by the time Samuel reached middle age most of the money was gone and he was barely able to support his wife and two children. He was well on his way to being someone history would not remember. But in 1764, at age 42, Samuel Adams gave up any further pretense of being a businessman and devoted himself to his true calling—politics.
An ardent proponent of the rights of the colonists since his college days, and a strident admirer of the writings of John Locke, Adams was a brilliant political organizer and a stirring public speaker—seemingly a natural-born revolutionary. He emerged as a leader of the resistance to taxation without representation. To the Patriots he was an inspiring motivator. To the Tories he was a provocative rabblerouser. Adams played key roles in the events leading to both the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. He founded the Sons of Liberty. He conceived the idea of Committees of Correspondence. He organized and championed the boycott of British goods. And he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. Thomas Jefferson would later call him, “truly the man of the Revolution.”
After retiring from Congress, Samuel Adams served as governor of his beloved Massachusetts, before dying peacefully on October 2, 1803, at age 81.
Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722, three hundred four years ago today.
Growing up, it was a common trope that cultures that we now associate with poverty, violence, and oppression were once world-leading in promoting prosperity and moral progress as well as the quintessentially human act of inventing. This popular belief was ultimately not driven by an earnest desire to promote awareness of empirically true but neglected facts. Instead, it was supported by anecdotes and quotations of dubious reliability and relevance, by scholarship that has turned out to be exaggerated or fraudulent, and by the promotion of these things in popular media.My favorite example of this has to do with the invention of many of the inventions credited to the so-called Islamic Golden Age by a rogue Wikipedia editor.
My latest article is about how a rogue Wikipedia editor confabulated and misattributed thousands of inventions and concepts to Muslims
— Cr�mieux (@cremieuxrecueil) October 1, 2026
This trolling made its way into blogs, articles, books, and TV programs. You might even believe some of his lies!
Link: https://t.co/4wYDCYPMm3 pic.twitter.com/yFOIaXqrSs
Remember this crap?
Friday, October 02, 2026
Yes, Britain is a police state,
Kim notes one of the ongoing problems with ATF, them violating the law(again)
Let's note that ATF still hasn't sent out the final, current rules on suppressors and such that they insist they're working so hard on.
Thursday, October 01, 2026
A piece on the 'Rape On Campus' myth Addition
One excerpt:
So what reality does lie behind the campus rape industry? A booze-fueled hookup culture of one-night, or sometimes just partial-night, stands. Students in the sixties demanded that college administrators stop setting rules for fraternization. “We’re adults,” the students shouted. “We can manage our own lives. If we want to have members of the opposite sex in our rooms at any hour of the day or night, that’s our right.” The colleges meekly complied and opened a Pandora’s box of boorish, sluttish behavior that gets cruder each year. Do the boys, riding the testosterone wave, act thuggishly toward the girls? You bet! Do the girls try to match their insensitivity? Indisputably.
College girls drink themselves into near or actual oblivion before and during parties. That drinking is often goal-oriented, suggests University of Virginia graduate Karin Agness: it frees the drinker from responsibility and “provides an excuse for engaging in behavior that she ordinarily wouldn’t.” A Columbia University security official marvels at the scene at homecomings: “The women are shit-faced, saying, ‘Let’s get as drunk as we can,’ while the men are hovering over them.” As anticipated, the night can include a meaningless sexual encounter with a guy whom the girl may not even know. This less-than-romantic denouement produces the “roll and scream: you roll over the next morning so horrified at what you find next to you that you scream,” a Duke coed reports in Laura Sessions Stepp’s recent book Unhooked. To the extent that they’re remembered at all, these are the couplings that are occasionally transformed into “rape”—though far less often than the campus rape industry wishes.
She calls them Legacy Media, I still use 'Professional Journalists', but same feeling:
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Well, the English 'elites' pushed and pushed for this, and it's happening,
Add to that the bloody mess over the people caught near that airbase. At the least a bunch of people should be either demoted or fired over this crap. And their official reaction is "You people don't know enough about this to get all upset."
How did Britain get so terrorist friendly? Said elites and the janissaries that used to be known as police worked at it. Hard.
Now go further east. Madam Hoyt notes this:
Abroad… Well, I wonder how much is happening that we never hear about. Though so far the turn to the right of Europe is the kind that seems to be more “American Right” than the traditional European jackboots left that respects national leanings and history. It’s both salutary and it scares the spit out of the left. As it should. A lot of what they’ve done this century and a half is to keep the “infection” of Americanism from overtaking the world. And I think they might have thrown a boomerang at their own faces.
Monday, September 28, 2026
Holy shit, this is thanks to a farmer making a phone call,
The level of stacked failures that allowed this situation to get to this point is amazing. Actually, kind of terrifying.
Yes, it's real
When actual racism is so little that people desperately need to make something racist so they can bitch about it.
Orr reminded me of someone I may not have mentioned for a long time
Abu Ahmad was speaking of Allah's enemies when he told listeners, in a talk shared on the centre's social media accounts: "It is to declare opposition: indeed, to take up arms against his enemies, to shun them and to stay far from them both in word and deed." He also said believers should not "take the Jews and the Christians for friends".
Hanson linked the remarks to Bondi. "Fifteen people were murdered in a terrorist act at Bondi. Now Australians are reading reports of an Islamic preacher urging followers to take up arms against Australian Christians and Jews. How much more do Albanese and Burke need to hear?" she said.
Fact is, they'd probably need a dose of tar & feathers to make them actually pay attention to anything that doesn't fit what the Labour Party wants people to hear and believe.
And the next time a bunch does a horrible act, they'll use that as an excuse to try to shut up anyone talking about it in Unapproved Ways. That's so much easier than actually having the balls to say "These people are the enemy, have you not seen their words?"
Sunday, September 27, 2026
Two connected things over there
And, I think connected, is the new Brit version of "You can say anything you want as long as we approve of it."
On September 22, Britain’s new (and unelected) Prime Minister Andy Burnham took to the stage at the U.N. and announced a new “National Centre for Information Defence” to “detect, attribute, and disrupt” hostile state information attacks.
The Right has correctly criticized this for being akin to Orwell’s terrifying “Ministry of Truth.” Our American cousins should be as concerned as we are because the Democrats will be sure to use this as a blueprint.
But this announcement is so pernicious because there is actually some merit in highlighting the kind of information warfare that is being waged against Western populations. But none of us can trust our own governments, given their recent track records, to have such power over information.
From bits and pieces that do get out, an awful lot of Brits are telling the .gov in general, and the police in particular, to go to hell.
The Jerusalem Cross is going up on A-road lampposts. Richard the Lionheart kit at Reform rallies. Templars at Tommy Robinson marches. “Christ is King!” cried by Danny Tommo and his lot down in Dover. Crusader crosses are quietly usurping the Cross of St George — itself a crusader cross — at Portsmouth, London and points between. The algorithm is pumping out AI knight reels faster than a medieval pope pumping out papal bulls. England is Crusadesmaxxing.
Which must be driving the government nuts. Which brings something to mind:
One of my gripes with Heinlein was his insistance in one or two stories that the Crusades were primarily to send younger sons off to cause trouble somewhere other than back home. Among problems with that:
The number of kings, and older sons, nobility in general who swore to go and went.
There really was war between invading muslims and Christians and Jews.
And it's still going on in many places.
Heinlein had an argument, but I think he got this wrong.